Yes and yes. People who want to rule are generally those least qualified, but also, the nature of incentives to hang on to power takes one to whole new levels of depravity.

Fundamentally, the best despots are those who don’t want the job in the first place, because they recognize that no single human being is capable of knowing better than everyone in the country and rule with the lightest touch they can get away with, harming as few as they can (and make no mistake, you will be harming people, regardless of your intentions). Wanting to do it suggests you don’t fully appreciate the responsibility, are grossly overconfident in your own abilities or both.

“Heavy is the head that wears the crown” or at least it should be. Even if you’ve been trained from birth, no one is ever qualified for the job. It’s not a question of if you’ll fuck up, but how you’ll fuck up and how badly.

But also, understanding that to make a real, significant change takes time means if you want to succeed in anything worth doing means holding on to power, and to do that, you better be controlling your pillars or your pillars will control you